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

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

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

Dating back to 1812, this is the oldest racecourse in the Southern Hemisphere.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Always a new use for this old building.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.