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andrielviana

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Musée des Arts et Métiers

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Added by mbison

145 Rue Lafayette

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

EVA

Le Musee des Moulages

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Added by CPilgrim

Le Comptoir Général

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

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Medici Column

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Dylan

59 Rivoli

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Allison

Added by Allison

Fountain of Innocents

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

Centre Pompidou

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

The Stravinsky Fountain

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Added by kelseyv64

Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche

The narrowest street in Paris.

SEANETTA

Added by SEANETTA

La Conciergerie

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

easydistance

Added by easydistance

The Bouquinistes of Paris

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Shakespeare and Company

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

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Paris Point Zero

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Jardin Alpin (Alpine Garden)

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

lampbane

Added by lampbane

The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Hotel Lutetia

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Traveling Maven

Added by Traveling Maven

Paris Padlocks of Love

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

amyfreeborn

Added by amyfreeborn

Mascarons of Pont Neuf

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Musée Dupuytren

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

Added by mbison

Mundolingua

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

Handsome Dan

Added by Handsome Dan

Arènes de Lutèce

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

cultureandstuff

Added by cultureandstuff

The Wall of Philip II Augustus

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Foucault's Pendulum

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

Dampo