An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

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.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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