A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.

Shattered columns and Egyptian pyramids outside of Paris.