A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.