Places pinpocket Wants to Go

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

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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