Places Jonsson Wants to Go

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

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

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

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.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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