Places Sandra McGhee Wants to Go

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The largest underground church in Europe.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.