The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.