This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

The rock carving that became an internet meme.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

In a shopping arcade, a modernized temple deeply tied to feudal Japan’s prominent warlords.

This Theravada Buddhist temple is a peaceful oasis steeped in history.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.