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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.