Places bertshetler Wants to Go

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

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

The national park was once a plantation estate.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

After 800 years, Europe's oldest elm tree has met its end.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

After being lost for nearly a century, this historic bell finally returned home after its mysterious theft.

The ruins of a 15th-century castle that has seen its fair share of bitter feuds.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.