Places skopke Wants to Go

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This slightly spooky yet nostalgic theme park claims to be the first of its kind in Australia.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A small curiosity shop with items ranging from antique medical supplies to taxidermied animals.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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