Places dee4di Wants to Go

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

The remains of this castle, known as the Witch’s Eye, watch over the Thur Valley.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This former cannon foundry and castle for the Counts of Flanders is now a public garden.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

This massive and eclectic collection is filled with thousands of sculptures, masks, and assemblages.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This fascinating abbey is considered the oldest monastery in the region.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.

An interactive museum and restaurant devoted to a prestigious breed of cattle.

Explore the art and history of intricate, hand-crafted tile designs at this small museum.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

A bridge that dates back to the 12th century is said to have made the devil very angry.