Places metarkhoss Wants to Go

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.