Places Vaevin Wants to Go

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

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

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.