The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

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

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

The site where two doves fell in love.

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

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.