Places Nekoswan Wants to Go

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

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

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.