Places avalard Wants to Go

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

A windswept necropolis carved into the rocks overlooks the "most Portuguese town in Portugal."

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

The last working windmill in Northern Ireland.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.