This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."