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

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A free public golf course hides in plain sight in the heart of Scotland’s capital.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.