The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.