Places osojaded Wants to Go

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

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

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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