Places Phleygas Wants to Go

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

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

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

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The middle finger of modernity.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.