Places hobgoblin Wants to Go

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.