Places stickleslaw Wants to Go

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

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

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

It’s Christmas every day at Barcelona’s oldest restaurant.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

Ancient Phoenician and Roman tombs carved into the rock overlook the Moroccan coastline.

The tomb of one of the greatest travelers in history.

A beloved local artist has been honored with this statue of a man emerging from a toilet.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.