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A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.