Places grrrlbrarian Wants to Go

An oasis of calm, nestled in the English countryside.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

This anatomical sculpture raises awareness about violence against women and promotes gender equality.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.