Places jawicellphone Wants to Go

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.