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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The narrowest street in Paris.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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.

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

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.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

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

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

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

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