Places lizziebelle Wants to Go

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.