Places monicakanellis Wants to Go

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Visit Europe's largest subterranean waterfall, carved by water from the glaciers of the towering peaks surrounding the valley.

This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.