Places mrpandaa Wants to Go

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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 first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.