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 unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The magic's in the hole!

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.