Places froeckmann Wants to Go

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

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This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

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

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."