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

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

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

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

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

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

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.