Places OiNeb Wants to Go

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A whimsical shrine with a porcelain Torii gate, split in half by an active train line.

Up on the iconic Tsutenkaku Tower sits an American mascot that became Osaka’s own lucky god.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.