This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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.

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

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

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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