Places mamasafari Wants to Go

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

One of Mexico's rare urban natural parks features waterfalls and a working fish farm.

A giant hilltop cross marks the location of a sanctuary with stunning views of Acapulco.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.