Places metaranha Wants to Go

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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.

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 bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.