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

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.