The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

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

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

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

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

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."