The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.