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

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

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

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

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

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

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

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

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