Places romanhyrc Wants to Go

Deep in the limestone cliffs of the Alabaster Coast, a German fortress built during World War II.

View one man's eccentric collection of nearly 5,000 corkscrews, then sip some Chablis.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.