Places Chris Kudrich Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

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

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

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.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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."

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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.