Places pgosun Wants to Go

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

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

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.