Places charlottelio Wants to Go

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

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

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

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

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

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.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.