Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

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

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.