This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.