Places kerryburnout Wants to Go

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.