The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.