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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

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

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

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.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.