Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

A French museum of wrought iron.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.