Places Atlantis Wants to Go

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The narrowest street in Paris.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.