Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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