Places mmszulinski Wants to Go

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This medieval chapel is now a shrine to the region's favorite sport.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

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

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.