Places Jilda Caccavo Wants to Go

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

The site where two doves fell in love.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.