This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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

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

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

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

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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

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.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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