Places nikisb Wants to Go

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This statue in Civitavecchia recreates a famous photograph from the end of World War II in massive scale.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A preserved portion of an ancient Athens barrier is displayed in a hotel basement.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.