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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La Conciergerie

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

easydistance

Added by easydistance

Execution Site of Jacques de Molay

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

SEANETTA

Added by SEANETTA

59 Rivoli

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Allison

Added by Allison

Julien Aurouze and Co.

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

Fountain of Innocents

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

The Relic Crypt of St. Helena at Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

CadaverFormosus

Added by CadaverFormosus

The Sausage Stained Glass of the Eglise Saint Eustache

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Medici Column

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Dylan

The Duluc Detective Agency

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Small Cannon of the Palais Royal

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

Sarah Vanheel CosmopoliClan

Added by Sarah Vanheel CosmopoliClan

Le Chabanais

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.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Labrouste Reading Room

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.

Dylan

Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

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

Added by cinapelayo

Cours des Miracles (Court of Miracles)

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

AaronNetsky

Added by AaronNetsky

House of Nicolas Flamel

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Allison

Added by Allison

Le Défenseur du Temps (The Defender of Time)

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

Allison

Added by Allison

The Stravinsky Fountain

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Added by kelseyv64

Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens

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

LaBeL RéCuP'

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Added by Worldtrvlr

Georges Méliès's Grave

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

CoolCrab

Added by CoolCrab

The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

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

Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

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

Added by jimclarkenewyork

Père Lachaise Cemetery

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Added by meelar

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

serflac

Added by serflac