This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.