Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

When this 160-year-old church was being built, a stonemason included a hidden homage to his late daughter.

The clock that sets them all.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The site where two doves fell in love.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.