Paris, France
Arènes de Lutèce
Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Paris, France
Musée des Arts et Métiers
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
Un Regard Moderne Bookstore
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
Musée Carnavalet
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature)
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
Shakespeare and Company
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
Julien Aurouze and Co.
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Permanently Closed
Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
The Gravestone Courtyard
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Cemetery of the Dogs
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.
Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Kansas City, Missouri
World's Largest Shuttlecocks
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City Library's Community Bookshelf
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Playtower
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
New York, New York
Times Square Hum
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
Permanently Closed
Brooklyn, New York
Broken Angel
An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.
New York, New York
The New York Earth Room
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
New York, New York
New York Marble Cemetery
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Centerport, New York
Vanderbilt Museum
An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.
Paris, France
Pont de la Concorde
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Springfield, Missouri
Fantastic Caverns
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Grave of Elmer McCurdy
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
