France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.