Places beatrizvale Wants to Go

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The middle finger of modernity.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.