How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.