This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

A local prank turned town icon.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.