Places whiteblueflower Wants to Go

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.