Places LynneM Wants to Go

An unexpected mix of medieval buildings and modern street art.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more.