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

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.