Places escapementality Wants to Go

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

A solar-powered primary school inspires hope and experimentation in a country ripe for energy innovation.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.