Places creativename Wants to Go

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

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

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

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.