A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This unassuming sculpture depicts grandfather of science fiction Jules Verne and his brother as children.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

Horse cemetery on the grounds of Blarney Castle.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

An underground city of salt.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.