Places SL Wants to Go

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

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

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

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