Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

A monument to the small town of master violin makers and its countless luthiers.