Places corinnapalmi Wants to Go

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.