Places thirstymaenad Wants to Go

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

An outcropping plays host to the largest collection of pre-contact petroglyphs in Saskatchewan.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

The "Paris of the Prairies" wouldn't be complete without a replica of the iconic landmark.