A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.