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 charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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.

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

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.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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 of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

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

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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