Places williamf Wants to Go

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

"The country that ate itself."

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.