Places beccalinnig Wants to Go

This stately Georgetown rowhouse was once the home of a 54-year-old diplomat and his 16-year-old bride.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

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.

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