Places Big Boi Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.