Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

This impressive chasm is one of the longest natural underground cavities in the world.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

At this unique farm, you can interact with adorable donkeys and view an ancient dolmen.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.

This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.

After James Madison's death, his wife and former First Lady Dolley Madison lived in this yellow building near the White House.