Places ChugBingus Wants to Go

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.