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

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.