Places Simon Jones Wants to Go

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.