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In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.