Places ktknoll Wants to Go

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

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

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

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.