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

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

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

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

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

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."