If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.