Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

Eat the ultimate iteration of Portugal's most beloved pastry.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.