Places abigaylerasmussen Wants to Go

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.