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

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

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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