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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.