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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.