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

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

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

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

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.