Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

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 museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.