Places tsrzad Wants to Go

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.