Places martinsamuelsson Wants to Go

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

The graffiti that birthed modern algebra.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.