Places remcrae Wants to Go

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

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 horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.