A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.