Places LaughingCrow Wants to Go

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.