Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.