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.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A fully functional, commercial, miniature art gallery.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A suburban housing complex with astonishing architectural features, locally nicknamed "the Camemberts."

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.

This cannonball has been lodged in the church wall since a 1695 bombardment destroyed the city center.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.