With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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