A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

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

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.