Places ckoohle Wants to Go

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

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

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

The ruins of an ancient pyramid built by the mysterious Chupícuaro civilization.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.