Places pgosun Wants to Go

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

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

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.