The octagonal tower at this important Buddhist site was added many years after the temple's initial construction.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

Designed to honor the birthplace of Buddha.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

One of the oldest adobe structures in Northern California.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.