Places nejuum Wants to Go

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.