Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

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

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

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.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.