One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

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

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

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

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.