Places Gisela Monteiro Wants to Go

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.