Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

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

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.