Places mawdsleyem Wants to Go

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Dishes are packed with flavor at one of the only Singaporean restaurants in Paris.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A little-known castle set in a nature reserve.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

The unique design of these skyscrapers in a Paris suburb led to them being nicknamed "cloud towers."

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

Perfume museum and library.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A seaside haven for 300 rescued cats.

Tiny Spanish beach covered in sea glass.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Centuries after this 12th-century abbey had fallen to ruin, it became known for the strawberries and cream served in its gardens.

This Victorian water wheel is affectionately nicknamed "Little Isabella."