The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The unique building practices of the Batammariba reflect the community's deep reverence for and connection to the earth.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.