Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

A dozen cast iron leopards stand guard along the length of Aberdeen's Union Bridge.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.