Places Michelle Wants to Go

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

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