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

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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.

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.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.