Places katehawes Wants to Go

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Every summer, an open-air swimming pool appears at the base of a Finnish city's beloved winter attraction.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This restored pump house gives a glimpse into the past when communal water supplies were common.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

This blue plaque commemorates the unexpected origin of one of the world's most beloved deserts.

Cambridge’s century-old outdoor swimming pool is tied for being the longest pool in the United Kingdom, but it is also unusually narrow.