On Waikīkī Beach, a monument to four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirits who brought the healing arts from Tahiti to Hawai'i.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.