Places Ciaran Wants to Go

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

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.