Places sasha030910 Wants to Go

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

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

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.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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