Places A.M. Brune Wants to Go

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

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

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.

Step inside this medieval Orthodox gem and travel back to the 16th century.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.

A supersonic jet stands on a pedestal in this rural village as a monument to military aviation.

This building has two facades of clashing architectural designs.