This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This monumental sculpture that welcomes visitors to Bethany Beach is a tribute to a regional Nanticoke Indian Tribe leader.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

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

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.