This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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