Places mawdsleyem Wants to Go

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

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

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.