Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

"Girl in a Wetsuit" is what happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100 year old copyright.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.