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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Got apples?

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

Perfume museum and library.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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