Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

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

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

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?