Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

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

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

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.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.