The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

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

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

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.