Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

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.

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

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

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

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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