How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles