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

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.