This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.