The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.