This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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.