In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

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

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