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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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.

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

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.