Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.