A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

The first of the iconic American roadside attractions lives on as a college mascot.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This iconic location, shrouded in mystery and nostalgia and still an active YMCA camp, was the setting for the Dharma Barracks in the hit TV series 'Lost.'

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

At 216 feet in length, this ornamental allium string is a feat to behold.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This bridge over the River Cuale leads to a neighborhood that was once an escape for Hollywood's elite.