Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

Beautiful carved tunnels.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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