Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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