Places psichegg Wants to Go

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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.

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

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.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.