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This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.