Places jeachan Wants to Go

After the owner of this Art Nouveau home died, it was turned into a museum displaying a lifetime dedicated to art.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

Portugal's National Pantheon has a history of curses, collapses and financial problems.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.