Places prairiequeer Wants to Go

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

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

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.