Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?