A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.