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

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

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

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

The narrowest street in Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.