Places Skuttel Wants to Go

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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.

Towering sandstone rock formations where 'The Chronicles of Narnia' was filmed.

These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.