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

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.