Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

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.

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

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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