Places Franco Wants to Go

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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

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

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

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.