High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.