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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.