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

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

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

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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