Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

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

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.