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.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.