Places semken Wants to Go

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This engineering marvel is the longest bridge in Canada and one of the longest spans in the world.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.