Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.