This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Striking, enormous gold-plated sculpture of Buddha installed in the 19th century.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

This park boasts a unusual collection of curious monuments from around the world, from Micronesia to Antarctica.

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

A precursor to Taro Okamoto’s iconic Tower of the Sun.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.