Places metaranha Wants to Go

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.