The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.