One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

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

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.