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Weird and cool museums and exhibits
Les Catacombes de Paris
More skulls than you can shake a femur at.
Museum of the History of Medicine
Creepy old medical instruments and more!
Avion III
Steampunk bat plane in the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
Musée de la chasse et de la Nature
The Museum of Hunting and Nature.
Le Musée des Arts Forains
The Museum of Carnival Arts.
Musée de la Magie
The Magic Museum.
Musée des Automates
The Automata Museum.
La Grande Galerie de l'Évolution
Tons of great taxidermy and skeletons.
Le Musée des Égouts de Paris
The Paris Sewer Museum.
Musée des vampires
Vampire museum on the edge of Paris.
Musée Grevin
Creepy wax museum and more.
Musée de l'Armée
The Army Museum at Les Invalides.
Sainte-Chappelle
13th-century gothic church with breathtaking stained glass
Espace Dalí
Museum of Salvador Dalí's surrealist drawings and sculptures.
Le Musée de l'Érotisme
The Museum of Eroticism.
Weird and cool (and free!) sights around Paris
Photo gallery of pixel art mosaics all over Paris
Photo gallery of weird public art all over Paris
Le Cimetière de Montmartre
My favorite cemetery, home to some very unusual tombs.
Julien Aurouze & Co.
Pest control shop with a window full of dead rats.
Deyrolle
Legendary Parisian taxidermy shop.
Le Cimetière des Chiens
Cemetery for dogs and other pets.
Le Défenseur du Temps
The Defender of Time; a clockwork automaton.
Cannonball stuck in the Hôtel de Sens
Goodbye, security deposit.
The Statue of Liberty in Paris
Lady Liberty hangs out all over Paris.
Oscar Wilde's death at L'Hôtel
Known for its hideous wallpaper.
Métro Arts et Métiers
Subway station with steampunk decor.
Le Passe-Muraille
The Passer-Through-Walls; a neat sculpture in Montmartre.
Le départ des fruits et légumes du coeur de Paris, le 28 février 1969
George Washington statue in Paris
Wait, really?
An unfinished statue of the Virgin Mary
Buried for eight centuries.
Les Enfants du Monde
Neat statues representing different countries.
Fake doorway on Rue Chapon
It's, like, art or something?
Fake window scene paintings
Hidden in plain sight.
Cool centaur statue by César
Giant thumb at La Défense
Seriously.
Dalida bust at Place Dalida
Near her home in Montmartre.
Weird and cool Paris history
Le Café de L'Enfer
A Hell-themed café in Pigalle.
Les Arènes de Lutece
The site of an ancient Roman arena in Paris!
L'Hôtel de Ville
A great place for an execution!
The assassination of Henri IV
Stand in the spot where royal blood spilled.
The Wolves of Paris
Bloodthirty wolf pack that terrorized Paris in 1450.
Saint Denis
The decapitated guy you'll bump into all over Paris.
Le Conciergerie
Former prison where Marie Antoinette awaited the guillotine.
St-Pierre-de-Montmartre
Church containing 7th century Roman columns.
Medieval houses on Rue François-Miron
Possibly from the 14th century!
The archeological crypt at Notre Dame
Discover 2,000 years of Paris history.
Place de la Concorde
Site of the guillotine after the Revolution.
WW1/WW2 bullet holes
Just outside the Luxembourg Gardens.
Weird and cool restaurants, cafés, and bars
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La Gare
Fine dining in an old train station.
Dans Le Noir
Intimate dining in complete darkness.
Café des Deux Moulins
The café from the movie Amélie.
La Fée Verte
Quaint, old-fashioned absinthe bar and café.
Le Procope
The oldest café in Paris, open since 1686!
Other random junk around Paris
Beautiful Russian nesting dolls
In the window at Peterhof.
Tiny dude hiding on the Fontaine Saint-Michel
Skeleton stencil street art
Medusa carving on a door in the Marais
Square Georges-Caïn
My favorite hidden little park in Paris.
Beehive sculpture on a building at Les Halles
Wallace fountains
Providing clean water for over a century. How many can you spot?
Creepy baby doll head display at Tombées du Camion
Ape head in the window of Makillages
Miscellaneous weird and cool stuff
Paris' coat of arms
Looking for Andre the Giant in Paris
Halloween in Paris
Filming locations from Amélie
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