Places Stymphalian Wants to Go

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

This Gothic revival structure has been a family home, a military base, a gymnastics center, and is now owned by one of the largest auction houses in Italy.

This historic line is a remnant of an ambitious and unconventional project that today provides panoramic views of the Ligurian mountains.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

Hike along an abandoned railway up to a popular pilgrimage site.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."