The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

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

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

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

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

Seasonal, Pacific Northwest cuisine served in a 101 year old firehouse.

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

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

Always a new use for this old building.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

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

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.