Places zydeko Wants to Go

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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