A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

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

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

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

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

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