Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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 massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

A memorial to the atrocities of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.