Places amberford Wants to Go

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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