Places Clur Wants to Go

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.