Places ieanferdinand Wants to Go

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

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

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.