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A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

A treasure trove of audio technology, from wax cylinders to juke boxes and record players.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This collection is the largest in the world dedicated to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.