Places Perseus Rebelo Wants to Go

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The loneliest island in New York.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.