Places pleiades Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Though it may look like a businessman's lost luggage, this case suspended under a highway bridge is actually a contemporary art installation.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

The history and future of cannabis.

A condensed piece of China floating in a Dutch harbor.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.