Places madelineflorio Wants to Go

Home to fantastic views and ancient graves.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

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

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

A small world of mechanical magic and metal merry-go-rounds in an outsider art museum.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

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

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.