Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.