The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

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

Peeing dogs guard the Roman hunting goddess atop a fountain at France’s Château de Fontainebleau.

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This environmental engineering marvel keeps salt water from the Elizabeth River.