Places Ilya Burlak Wants to Go

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

The site where two doves fell in love.

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

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.