One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

This buzzy, award-winning building hovers 85 feet above the ground on a dozen colorful stilts.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

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

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.