Places meganbystricky Wants to Go

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

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

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.