Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Amid the rubble of Aleppo's Old Quarter, part of a historic market has been restored and re-opened.

A 1,500-year-old ghost settlement is slowly fading away.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

The house where a Danish physicist discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

Two gilded cherubs perched on a church bell tower have been reminding visitors of the finitude of life since 1760.

This mysterious chalk figure of a horse has been recreated and restored for more than a century.