A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.