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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

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

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

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.