Places thatdude Wants to Go

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

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

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

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

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.