This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

At one South African whaling station, this industrial extermination led to a feeding frenzy that may have even been a key inspiration for Jaws.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.