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A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

Inspired by a piece of concrete, these three pyramid-shaped buildings have been beloved Indianapolis landmarks for over 50 years.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

A suburban housing complex with astonishing architectural features, locally nicknamed "the Camemberts."

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.