This twisty section of highway in the Himalayan foothills is lined with thousands of small mirrors.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

The site of a defunct mill, that once supplied marble for the construction of the Lincoln Memorial.

Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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 subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.