Algarrobo, Chile
World's Largest Swimming Pool
A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.
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Algarrobo, Chile
A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Paducah, Kentucky
A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.
Chevilly-Larue, France
Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.
Paris, France
A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.
Paris, France
An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.
Paris, France
Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.
Paris, France
The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Paris, France
Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.