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

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

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

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.