Places cssjen70 Wants to Go

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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