One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

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

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.