Places theolinger Wants to Go

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

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

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

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.