Places Oubliette Wants to Go

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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 vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.