Places WanderlustDiaries Wants to Go

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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.

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

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.