A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

As seen in the Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ music video.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.