Places madelineflorio Wants to Go

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

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

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A total of 22 tiny bridges cross this canal of the Yvette River, forming a unique trail.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.