hrnick's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

hrnick

Restless, curious, obsessed by Atlas Obscura and always looking for a next destination. Feel free to connect with me on Facebook if you want to ask about a place I've been or added or if you're looking for an Atlas Obscura obsessed guide in Stockholm.

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Le Musée du Fumeur

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

Added by Joseph Alexiou

L'Atelier des Lumières (Workshop of Light)

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

Added by daryleconners

Lines of Cremains at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

'Les Spécialistes' Fake Door

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Simon Jones

Added by Simon Jones

Place de la Reunion Fountain

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

Cactam

Added by Cactam

Parc Monceau

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

orchidsheart42

Added by orchidsheart42

The One-Two-Two

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

I Love You Wall

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

serflac

Added by serflac

Le Passe-Muraille

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Added by beckybodnar

Le Chat Noir Collection

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

Montmartre Funicular

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Le Louxor Palais du Cinema

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

145 Rue Lafayette

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

EVA

Le Comptoir Général

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Argonaute Submarine

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

katiebaker4

Added by katiebaker4

Temple de la Sybille (The Temple of Sybille)

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Added by daryleconners

Beware of Words

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Added by rouseville

El Clan Destino

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Added by historynerdxl

Chez Christiane

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Passy Cemetery

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

Gavin

Musée de la Contrefaçon

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Added by mbison

Jardin d'Acclimatation

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

hcw2rp

Added by hcw2rp

Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle

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

Added by e23rutland

The Last Original Standard Metre

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

Allison

Added by Allison