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

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

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

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

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

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

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

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

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

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

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

Definitely not a clown bar.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.