Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

An unusual pagoda design in in the northwestern part of Hwaeomsa Temple.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A small section in the Bank of Korea Museum dedicated to the many varieties of the Joseon dynasty’s iconic coinage.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.