Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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