Places roynunn Wants to Go

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

One car at a time please.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.