Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

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.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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.

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