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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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