Places QBsTravels Wants to Go

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

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

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

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

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

The largest underground church in Europe.

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

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.