A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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