Places cftparis Wants to Go

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.