Places cait7911 Wants to Go

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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