Places jsimms1016 Wants to Go

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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.

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

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

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.