Places missymuses Wants to Go

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.

Over two million dolls have been healed during this hospital's century in business.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.