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Sky Tower

Auckland, New Zealand

Sky Tower

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Montmartre Cemetery

Paris, France

Montmartre Cemetery

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The James Dean Museum and Garfield Museum

Fairmount, Indiana

The James Dean Museum and Garfield Museum

Two Indiana icons are honored at this tiny museum, which features the world's largest collection of James Dean memorabilia.

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The Golden Gal of Old Madison Square Garden

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Golden Gal of Old Madison Square Garden

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Summer at Shofuso

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Chinese Parlor in the House of Henry Francis du Pont.

Wilmington, Delaware

Winterthur

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

The skeleton.

Oviedo, Spain

The Green Skeleton

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

Neanderthal hands, jawbones, and bones.

Oviedo, Spain

El Sidrón Neanderthal Bones

It's believed these prehistoric individuals were the victims of cannibalism.

Tower of Hercules

A Coruña, Spain

Tower of Hercules

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

Going-to-the-Sun Road

West Glacier, Montana

Going-to-the-Sun Road

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

Livraria Lello

Porto, Portugal

Livraria Lello

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, France

Père Lachaise Cemetery

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

LCT was best known for his work with stained glass.

Winter Park, Florida

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Roman Walls of Lugo

Lugo, Spain

Roman Walls of Lugo

Remarkably intact Roman stone fortifications have encircled this Spanish city for centuries.

(Flickr/Bebulaki)

Paris, France

I Love You Wall

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Salvador Dalí Sundial

Paris, France

Salvador Dalí Sundial

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Le Chat Noir.

Paris, France

Le Chat Noir Collection

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The effigy of Victor Noir, with a spot conspicuously rubbed clean.

Paris, France

The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

La Conciergerie

Paris, France

La Conciergerie

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Le Passe-Muraille

Paris, France

Le Passe-Muraille

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Le Cimetière du Calvaire is Paris' oldest and smallest cemetery.

Paris, France

Cimetière du Calvaire

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

One of the passages of Las Médulas. (Wikimedia Commons)

Yeres, Spain

Las Médulas

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Foucault's Pendulum

Paris, France

Foucault’s Pendulum

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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