How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

A local prank turned town icon.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.