The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

This crumbling medieval basilica once attracted pilgrims by the thousands to collect a miraculous dust that formed above the saint's tomb.

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

One of the biggest markets in Asia, under one of the continent's largest domes.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.