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Le Passe-Muraille

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Added by beckybodnar

The Heart of Voltaire

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

Dylan

Cannonball of the Hotel de Sens

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

La Promenade Plantée

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Added by brickhound

Julien Aurouze and Co.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

The Last Original Standard Metre

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Parc Monceau

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

orchidsheart42

Added by orchidsheart42

Danse de la Fontaine Emergente

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

Added by beckybodnar

Le Musee des Moulages

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Added by CPilgrim

Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Added by mbison

Musée de la Vie Romantique

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Lion of The Botanical Gardens

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

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

philoursmars

Added by philoursmars

Carousel of Extinct and Endangered Animals

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

serflac

Added by serflac

Statue of Death of the University of Medicine

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Deyrolle Taxidermy

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

Added by mbison

Musée de Cluny

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Foucault's Pendulum

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

Dampo

Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Allison

Added by Allison

Salvador Dalí Sundial

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Allison

Added by Allison

Jules Lavirotte's 29 Avenue Rapp

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Le Défenseur du Temps (The Defender of Time)

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Allison

Added by Allison

The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Allison

Added by Allison