Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

A Biblically notable site over the ruins of an ancient city that is now a protected World Heritage site.