This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

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

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