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The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

This outdoor library provides around-the-clock access to around 7,000 books.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

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