Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

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

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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.

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.