One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

This plaza is home to a number of works, including Montpellier‘s own Arc de Triomphe.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A cast iron Fiat 500 sculpture overlooks the sea at Port Lympia.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

A legendary West Hollywood bar where celebrities shoot pool with the locals.

This building served as the first customs house in modern Greece.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.