A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.