This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

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

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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