Places jazzpilot Wants to Go

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

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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