Places Mwperpall Wants to Go

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

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

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

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

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

After World War II, this former concentration camp in Northern Italy became a refuge for those displaced by the war.

An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

A floating bridge leaning on barges allows pedestrians to reach the historical center.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.