A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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.

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.