Places apollinnaire Wants to Go

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

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

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

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

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.