Places asdonkar Wants to Go

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

These high mineral baths were used by Roman soldiers, royals, and the military before opening to the public in 2005.

A waterfall coming through an old stone wall, in a small canyon where 3 creeks converge.

This remarkable 125-year-old building has survived a bank heist, a rooftop dragon, and more than a century of changing businesses; today, it lives on as FairyCross Bottle Shop.

A 5,000-pound fiberglass channel catfish perches on the banks of the Red River, occasionally taking a swim when spring floodwaters rise.

Austin’s first public mural is a 50-year-old psychedelic time capsule where armadillos, musicians, outlaws and local legends hide an entire city’s history in plain sight.

The shelves at this Chattanooga bar are stocked with used books, and buying one sends money back to the library.

The oldest institution of higher education in Wisconsin and the first to admit women.

As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.

A late 4th-century BC archaeological wonder located just outside the suburbs of Thessaloniki, Greece.

How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.

Charming bookshop for true-crime fans and horror aficionados, plus other books and odds and ends.

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

A place like gnome other.