Places pegfoen Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."