Places reeserich Wants to Go

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

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

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

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

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.