This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.