Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

This modern, multimedia museum takes visitors on an evolutionary journey back in time.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

Croatia's "hairy stone" fortress is one of the most well preserved Istrian castles.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.