Places froeckmann Wants to Go

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.