Places robinguthrie Wants to Go

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

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

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.