Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

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

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

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