Places melissabaker Wants to Go

A wondrous place to watch a special flower bloom.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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."

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

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.

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.