Places janessapk Wants to Go

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

A massive statue depicts Jesus as if he's about to take off in flight.

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.

Explore a uniquely pristine Borneo forest, now protected by former headhunters turned tour guides.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.