A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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

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

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