Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.