This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.