Places amarionknh Wants to Go

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

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.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

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

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.