Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

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

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

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.