Places joanneclegg13 Wants to Go

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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.

The narrowest street in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.