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

Dedicated to the history and culture of smoking, this small museum now includes a vape lounge.

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.