Places jenmcdonald Wants to Go

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

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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