Places madelineflorio Wants to Go

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

This stone bridge is all that remains of a submerged New Jersey town.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.

A young Gustave Eiffel assisted in the construction of this skinny metal observation tower.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."