Small French town or alien garage?

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

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

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 museum of magic with a Sadist past.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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.

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

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

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

This collection of artifacts represents one family's mission to record the horrors of World War II inflicted on their hometown.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.