A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.