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Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

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

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.