Places novalinne Wants to Go

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

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

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

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.