Places A.M. Brune Wants to Go

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A carved bench marks the Scottish cave that inspired the classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."

Tucked away in this local museum is a piece of sporting equipment that dates to the 16th-century.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

A winding cave grotto walkway built to provide employment for veterans after World War I.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.