This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

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

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

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 former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.