Places mamasafari Wants to Go

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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.