These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

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

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.