With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

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

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

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