With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

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

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

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