Places ieanferdinand Wants to Go

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.