Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

A symbol of hope, survival, and national character, especially after it rose phoenix like from the flames.

The site where the Emperor of Korea performed the long-forbidden "rite of heaven" to demonstrate his absolute sovereignty.

The site of the last royal wedding in Korea.

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

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

The supreme shrine of the state.