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

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.

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.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.