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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

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

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.