Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

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

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.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.