Places nejuum Wants to Go

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

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

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

The room where the famous commander of the Catholic forces was murdered by Irish assassins during the Thirty Years' War has been reconstructed with many of his original possessions.

These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.

In this Romani neighborhood lies a museum dedicated to the culture and history of the Roma.

Locals say the stone that marks the spot where the gallows once stood can lead you astray.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.