Places jodypea25 Wants to Go

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

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

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.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

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

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

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

This stately council chamber hasn't changed since 1545.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.