A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This wooden statue commemorates a man who spent nearly 40 years waving hello to the people of Laguna Beach.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.