Places clerton Wants to Go

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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