One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

A memorial to the soldiers who died in the bloody battles to control Verdun in World War I.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

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

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This cathedral's stained-glass patchwork of psychedelic colors and shapes was put in place long before the swinging 60s.

The oldest ruins at this castle overlooking Georgia's Terek River Valley date back to the 10th century.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.

Built in the Soviet era, this cableway system still runs gondolas from Odessa down to Otrada Beach.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

This mountaintop mariner’s church is packed with model ships and nautical art while hosting an annual maritime festivity for the townsfolk below.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.