Places Tinker Belle Wants to Go

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.