Places jclausr Wants to Go

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Widely advertised as Amsterdam’s narrowest street, this passage was once a highlight of the Red Light District before its windows closed.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A museum dedicated to the history of the diamond trade in the Netherlands.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.