Places tenzin35 Wants to Go

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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.

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

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