Places afink Wants to Go

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

The site where two doves fell in love.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.