Places denicewaters Wants to Go

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This peaceful park with centuries of history hides in an overlooked section of South London.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.