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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The second tallest railway trestle bridge in America.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

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

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.