Places ameliacook Wants to Go

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

A French museum of wrought iron.

Lego blocks now patch Rouen's WWII scars.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.