Places Sappetta Wants to Go

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

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

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

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

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

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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