Places Cattheripper Wants to Go

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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.

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

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.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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