A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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 headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.