The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

The narrowest street in Paris.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

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

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

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

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.