This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.