A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

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

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

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.