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

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

The last standing silent film studio in Jacksonville is the last remnant of the city's once-thriving movie industry.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.