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Giverny, France

Claude Monet House and Gardens

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Parc Monceau

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

orchidsheart42

Added by orchidsheart42

Musée Curie

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

Indygenous

Added by Indygenous

Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Allison

Added by Allison

Sculptures de Décure

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

WWII Bunker Under Gare de l'Est

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Josh

Le Défenseur du Temps (The Defender of Time)

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Allison

Added by Allison

Musée de la Vie Romantique

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Allison

Added by Allison

Dans le Noir?

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

Dylan

Musée de Cluny

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Allison

Added by Allison

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

serflac

Added by serflac

Au Bonheur du Jour

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Salvador Dalí Sundial

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Allison

Added by Allison

The Gravestone Courtyard

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Musée des Arts et Métiers

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Added by mbison

Musee de la Magie

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Added by mbison

Harry's New York Bar

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

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

philoursmars

Added by philoursmars

Foucault's Pendulum

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

Dampo

Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Added by e23rutland

Centre Pompidou

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

La REcyclerie

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Jules Lavirotte's 29 Avenue Rapp

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier