Places dnarcisse Wants to Go

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

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

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

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