Places Pengwn Wants to Go

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

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.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.