Places Clur Wants to Go

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.