Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This fascinating abbey is considered the oldest monastery in the region.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

The site where two doves fell in love.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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