Places clpartin Wants to Go

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

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

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.