The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

A Victorian garden in a harsh climate at the border of the prairies and foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Quite possibly the oldest love poem known to humankind.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Just across from the "Last Supper" painting is the famous painter's vineyard, a gift received for creating the masterpiece.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

Also known as the Temple of Poseidon, this is one of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

One of the most valuable palace-garden complexes in the eastern borderlands—and one of the most haunted.