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

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

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

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

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

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

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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

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

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

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

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