In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.