A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

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

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.