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A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

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

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.