Places Totostales Wants to Go

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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.

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

According to local folklore, this Roman sepulcher was once a throne for the Devil.

Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.