Places rykinu Wants to Go

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.