Places hmhmurphy Wants to Go

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

Just one of many oranges on this citrus-happy continent.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

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.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."