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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

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

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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