Paris, France
The Beverley Adult Cinema
A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.
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Paris, France
A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.
Paris, France
Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.
Paris, France
Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Paris, France
This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Paris, France
Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Paris, France
This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Paris, France
A museum of magic with a Sadist past.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.