Places bertrandbinois Wants to Go

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

In a strip mall parking lot, an airplane with a cafe inside, flanked by a giant statue of Fred Flintstone.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

This statue took 60 years to complete.

Isaan street food staples are in spectacular form at this no-frills institution.

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.