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

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

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

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

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.