Places KylaSBriggs Wants to Go

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

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

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

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A student driver's nightmare.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.