Places leilat Wants to Go

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.

A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.

This medieval church is not only notable for its architecture, but also its connection with LGBTQ+ history.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.