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Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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.

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 haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

A garden of flying flowers.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

Take a leisurely walk through the park to find the seven giant troll sculptures hidden throughout the park.

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.