The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.