With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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