This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.