Places heatherharris92 Wants to Go

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

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

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.