Places mfayesimon Wants to Go

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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