A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.