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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

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

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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

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

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

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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