Places Alex1694 Wants to Go

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Head to this repurposed Renault van for fiery sausages and fries.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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