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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

A curious collection of locks and keys.

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

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

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.