Places gloriana Wants to Go

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

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

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.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

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

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?