Places criatvra Wants to Go

An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

One man's desire to transcend art led to the construction of this outsider chapel.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

On the grounds of a former estate in Burgundy stands an elaborate temple that is modeled after the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

This spa park features an open-air museum of abstract marble sculptures.

The medieval fortress of Prince Lazar of Serbia is now an archaeological park.

A large concrete replica of a 12th-century figurine.