An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The middle finger of modernity.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

Canada's accused-traitor-turned-folk-hero is buried under a red stone in a ring of his own.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.