Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

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

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.