Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

The world's first jet-powered aircraft were assembled by the Germans in this secret factory in the forest during WWII.

Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.

Remains of a huge radio tower.