Places mikepatriquin Wants to Go

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.