Places honaker13 Wants to Go

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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.

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

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

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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