Places cait7911 Wants to Go

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

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

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

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.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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