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

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

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

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

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

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