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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.

An artful memorial to 4,000 fateful oranges.

This museum explores the tumultuous history of Lviv under Nazi and Soviet occupation.

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.