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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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.

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

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

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.