A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

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

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.