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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

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

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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