France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

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

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

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

Built some 700 years ago, this Taíno ceremonial site features ball courts, petroglyphs, and evidence of ancient astronomy practices.