Places pgosun Wants to Go

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.