Places hapichapi Wants to Go

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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.

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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

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.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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