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

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.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

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.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.