Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

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

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.