Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.