Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!