Places leedy Wants to Go

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A medieval church built into an ancient cave.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?