Places escapementality Wants to Go

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.