Places nejuum Wants to Go

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

Trek into the depths of the cave where 17,000-year-old paintings exist alongside 400-year-old graffiti.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

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 stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.