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

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

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

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

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.