Places madveek Wants to Go

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.