Places ariellemia Wants to Go

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

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Before this rocky hill was home to a chapel, it was used as a lookout by Romans and Moors.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A treasure trove of audio technology, from wax cylinders to juke boxes and record players.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.