Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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 unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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.

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 museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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