An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.