Fred Cherrygarden's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Fred Cherrygarden

A Tokyo native, lifelong Alice in Wonderland devotee, antique dealer, fantasy author, Lord of Sealand, Baron of Ladonia, citizen of Flandrensis, and oftentimes a victim of sloppy editing…

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Un Regard Moderne Bookstore

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Laetitia Barbier

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Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche

The narrowest street in Paris.

SEANETTA

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Shakespeare and Company

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Madiha Bataineh

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Paris Space Invaders

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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59 Rivoli

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Allison

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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.

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Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

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

serflac

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Georges Méliès's Grave

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

CoolCrab

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Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

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

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The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

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

Lines of Cremains at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

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Place de la Reunion Fountain

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

Cactam

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Paris Padlocks of Love

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

amyfreeborn

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'Jeune Éléphant pris au Piège' ('Young Elephant Caught in a Trap')

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

Monsieur Mictlan

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Statue Le Rhinoceros

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Monsieur Mictlan

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Pont de la Concorde

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

Allison

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Au Roi de la Bière

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

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

The One-Two-Two

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

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.

I Love You Wall

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

serflac

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Le Passe-Muraille

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

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Montmartre Cemetery

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Luke J Spencer

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