Places cch2179 Wants to Go

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.