An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

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This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.