The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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.

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

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

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