Places shellylally Wants to Go

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

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.