Places kmgrossepointe Wants to Go

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

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

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

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

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

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

A palatial art deco restroom.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.