Places Skurkey Wants to Go

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

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

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.