Places robpileckis Wants to Go

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

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

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.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Lego blocks now patch Rouen's WWII scars.

A French museum of wrought iron.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

Above the door of a house, a plaque claims to commemorate the future living place of the inventor of time travel.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.