Places RouteDown Wants to Go

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

Pigduck of Turku.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.