Places LexaPayne Wants to Go

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

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.