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

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

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

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

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

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.