Places serpent Wants to Go

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.