Places thatdude Wants to Go

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

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.