Places samhartley101 Wants to Go

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

At this concrete bunker on the Trondheim fjord, secrets lie above and below the water's surface.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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