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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

A dictator's failed public works project has been reborn as two linked trails through spectacular scenery.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”