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Village situated on a narrow volcanic escarpment.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Got apples?

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.