Places mike boyle Wants to Go

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.