The place nearest Seoul where it’s easy to get a good look at North Korea.

A well-known Japanese musician’s all-night concert on this island is immortalized by an unusual work of art.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

Commemorating the Japanese migration to Peru, this statue has a sister standing across the Pacific.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This unique building in the main square stands out among the city's typically Baroque architecture.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Listen to Malta’s musical heritage while relaxing in the park.

These clocks tell time in a theological sense.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

This 19th-century aqueduct provides insights into how water was supplied to Victoria on the island of Gozo before modern plumbing.

This is one of the very few intact windmills built by the Knights of St. John in the island nation of Malta.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.