The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

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

The body of one of the world's most famous outlaws is covered in cement and iron to prevent it from being stolen.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.