Places reeserich Wants to Go

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

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