Places wittc2 Wants to Go

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

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

Pigduck of Turku.