Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

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

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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.

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

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

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

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

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