Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

An angel that hatched from an egg!

A miraculous three-handed portrait of a saint can be found inside this church.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

For over 100 years, this souvenir of the Mexican Revolution has been kept on the clock of the Government Palace in Guadalajara, well, sort of

Within the church are the relics of the martyrs St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Gabriel Lalemant, and St. Charles Garnier.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

This 250-to 375-year-old live oak tree towers over the back garden of a local history museum.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.