Places ejbrown Wants to Go

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

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

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