Places Piiikaa Wants to Go

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.