Places thatdude Wants to Go

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.