Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
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Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Paris, France
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.
Fez, Morocco
Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.
Merzouga, Morocco
God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.
Province de Tinghir, Morocco
One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.
Aït Ben Haddou, Morocco
A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Hanover, New Hampshire
The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.
Indonesia
Exotic, erotic, and esoteric, one artist's live-in Bali gallery brings a splash of color and madness to its surroundings.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.