Places toohero Wants to Go

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

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

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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