Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

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

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.