A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

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 Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

It celebrates the four men from South Africa who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The engine block of a British Royal Mail Ship marks the spot of her demise, caused by the Great Gale of 1856.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

A beautiful viewpoint on the Garden Route overlooking a naturally-occurring outline of Africa.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.