Places nancybdeol Wants to Go

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.