Places ViaPolytropos Wants to Go

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

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.