Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

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

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

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

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.