Places Jon Perroni Wants to Go

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A former groundskeeper’s cottage, now famous for being the main location of a hit British comedy game show.