Places tiernoodle Wants to Go

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

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

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

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

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

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.