Places lokimann Wants to Go

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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