Places pleiades Wants to Go

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

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

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

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

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.