Places LouiseLabreche Wants to Go

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Perfume museum and library.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.