A stained-glass window from the 15th century offers a vision of the end of the world.

A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

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