Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.