Places theocurtwill2007 Wants to Go

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

The world's longest known cave system.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

These sculptures were designed to beautify this neighborhood when it was established in the 1940s.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.