Places guen0062 Wants to Go

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.