One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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.

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Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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