The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

The magic's in the hole!

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.