The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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