Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

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

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.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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