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Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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