The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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.

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

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.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.