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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

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

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

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.