Places mratomic Wants to Go

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

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

A large statue of Pope Gregory XIII in Bologna was disguised as Saint Petronius to avoid destruction.

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.