Places emmypimms Wants to Go

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

In Midtown Atlanta, tons of marble appears to be devouring a Fiat Panda at this unique art installation.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.