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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.