Places ShellybearG Wants to Go

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

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.