A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

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

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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