Places Bowiefrid Wants to Go

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

Perfume museum and library.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

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

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

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

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

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