The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

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