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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.