Paris, France
La Conciergerie
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
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Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
Paris, France
A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
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