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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

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

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

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.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.