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Traveling Maven

“The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure.”

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Jardin d'Acclimatation

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

hcw2rp

Added by hcw2rp

Musée National de la Marine

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Allison

Added by Allison

Flame of Liberty

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Added by Alexander

Statue of Liberty, Pont de Grenelle

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

Added by e23rutland

'Les Spécialistes' Fake Door

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Simon Jones

Added by Simon Jones

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature)

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens

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

The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

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

Lines of Cremains at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

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Added by satxwdavis

Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Added by jimclarkenewyork

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

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

serflac

Added by serflac

House of Nicolas Flamel

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

Added by meelar

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Gettysburg Cyclorama

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Statue Le Rhinoceros

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Monsieur Mictlan

Added by Monsieur Mictlan

The Sausage Stained Glass of the Eglise Saint Eustache

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Victoires

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Lilai Licata

Added by Lilai Licata

The Grand Lodge of France

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

The One-Two-Two

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

Labrouste Reading Room

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.

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Water Tank Beneath Palais Garnier

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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Added by AaronNetsky

Parc Monceau

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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Added by orchidsheart42

Le Chabanais

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

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

Added by cinapelayo