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toniamonkey

I love to travel to off the beaten path places. If it involves animals all the better. I do not tolerate animal abuse. Meeting new people and learning about new cultures is the point of traveling.

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Lines of Cremains at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

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Treaty of Paris Plaque

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

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The Relics of St. Genevieve at St-Etienne-du-Mont

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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Musée Marmottan Monet

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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Place de la Reunion Fountain

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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Passy Cemetery

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Amrapali

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Statue Le Rhinoceros

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

Monsieur Mictlan

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Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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Hotel Lutetia

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Traveling Maven

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Maison de Victor Hugo

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

Carlos Sousa

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Rotary Love Hotel

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

The Beverley Adult Cinema

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

'Les Spécialistes' Fake Door

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Simon Jones

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Statue of Death of the University of Medicine

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Laetitia Barbier

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Musée de la Contrefaçon

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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Pont de la Concorde

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

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Jeannot's Floor

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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The Stravinsky Fountain

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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Julien Aurouze and Co.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Flame of Liberty

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Added by Alexander

LaBeL RéCuP'

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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Le Chabanais

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Laetitia Barbier

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The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?