Places stonoceno Wants to Go

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.

Pigduck of Turku.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.