Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.