St. Augustine, Florida
The Ponce de León Hotel
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
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St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
Jacksonville, Florida
Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Halethorpe, Maryland
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.
Arlington, Virginia
The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.
Arlington, Virginia
Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.
Arlington, Virginia
This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Paris, France
A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.