Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

Below the altar in Saint-Willibrord Basilica rests the mortal remains of Luxembourg's patron saint.

An ancient Roman relief beautifully preserved on the façade of a house.

The cave of a 12th-century hermit is still visited and venerated today.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.