A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.