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One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.