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This collection of oddities, spooky stuff, weird historical tidbits, and other lesser-known attractions is why I started this site in the first place! Unlinked items are articles I'm working on now; I'll be posting one or two new articles per day. You can follow the Cool Stuff in Paris blog and Twitter to see updates about all articles as they're posted!

Le Musée des Égouts de Paris — the Paris Sewer Museum

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
• Musée des vampires — vampire museum on the edge of Paris
• Le Musée des Arts Forains — the Museum of Carnival Arts
• Le Musée des Égouts de Paris — the Paris Sewer Museum
• 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
• Musée Grevin — creepy wax museum and more
• Musée de la Poupée — unintentionally creepy museum of old dolls
• Musée de l'érotisme — the eroticism museum; a tourist trap worth getting trapped by

Dead rats in the window at Julien Aurouze and Co.

Weird and Cool (and Free!) Sights around Paris

• A photo gallery of weird public art all over Paris
• Julien Aurouze and Co. — old-fashioned pest control shop with a window full of taxidermied rats
• Le Cimetière des Chiens — cemetery for dogs and other pets in Asnières-sur-Seine
• Le Défenseur du Temps — the Defender of Time; a steampunk automaton clockwork creation
• The Statue of Liberty in Paris
• Oscar Wilde's death at L'Hôtel — where he uttered the immortal line
• Métro Arts et Métiers — subway station with steampunk decor
• George Washington statue in Paris
• Cannonball in the wall of the Hôtel de Sens
• An unfinished statue of the Virgin Mary, buried for eight centuries, now on display in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
• Les Enfants du Monde — neat statues representing different countries and nationalities
• Photo gallery of pixel art mosaics all over Paris
• Deyrolle — legendary Parisian taxidermy shop
• Weird tombs in the Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise
• Montmartre Vineyards — the only vineyards in Paris, and the site of an ancient Dionysian temple
• Gargoyle hunting in Paris

Check my Cool Stuff in Paris blog for tons of entries about weird public art and other things to see around Paris right now!

Hôtel de Ville — a great place for an execution!

Weird and Cool Paris History

• Le Café de L'Enfer — a Hell-themed café in Pigalle
• Mysteries of Paris — The Paris Ghost Tour
• Les Arènes de Lutece — the site of an ancient Roman arena on the left bank!
• 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 — a bloodthirty wolf pack that terrorized Paris in 1450
• Saint Denis — the decapitated guy you'll bump into all over Paris
• St-Pierre-de-Montmartre — church in Montmartre containing 7th-century Roman columns
• Place de la Concorde — site of the guillotine after the Revolution
• L'Écluse des Morts — site of the Montfaucon gallows on the Saint Martin Canal
• Fontaine des Innocents — site where most of the Catacombs' bones came from
• Le Conciergerie — former prison where Marie Antoinette awaited the guillotine

The croque madame — one of mankind's greatest inventions.

Weird and Cool Restaurants, Cafés, and Bars

• La Gare — fine dining in an old train station
• Dans Le Noir — intimate dining in complete darkness
• La Fée Verte — quaint, old-fashioned absinthe bar and café
• La Guillotine — Latin Quarter bar with a real guillotine!
• Le Caveau des Oubliettes — downstairs from La Guillotine; have a drink in a 12th-century dungeon
• Le Procope — the oldest café in Paris, open since 1686

(See lots more Restaurants, Cafés, and Bars.)

Miscellaneous Weird and Cool

• Looking for Andre the Giant in Paris
• All about absinthe
• Paris' coat of arms

More soon!