Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.