Paris, France
World's Oldest Basketball Court
Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.
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Paris, France
Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.
Paris, France
The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Paris, France
This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Paris, France
Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.
Paris, France
Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.