Places bsempowski Wants to Go

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.