A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

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

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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.