The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”