Places normacaskey Wants to Go

This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

The largest salt lake in the Sahara is mysteriously alluring.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

This museum in the famously blue neighborhood of Sidi Bou Saïd showcases a traditional Tunisian lifestyle.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

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

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

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

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