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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

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

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

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.