Places LaGiumenta7 Wants to Go

Thousands of rock-cut tombs fill the cliffs of this Sicilian nature preserve.

According to legend, after Hades pulled Persephone into the underworld, one of her attendant nymphs cried so much that her tears formed this spring.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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