Places SL Wants to Go

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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 surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.