Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."