Paris, France
Crypt Beneath St. Joseph des Carmes
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
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Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Paris, France
Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.
Paris, France
Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.
Paris, France
The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.
Paris, France
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.
Paris, France
This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.
Paris, France
Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.