Places jeaninnesantos Wants to Go

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.