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An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

This monumental mural crafted nearly 40 years ago is still in perfect condition.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.