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A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

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

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.