Secret Paris

Secret
Paris

Winemaking firefighters, a tree in a church, an inverted phallus at a well-known entrance, an atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l'Est, unsuspected traces of former brothels, the patron saint of motorists, royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard, the presentation of Christ's crown of thorns, a prehistoric merry-go-round, a sundial designed by Dali, bullet holes at the ministry, religious plants in a priest's garden, a mysterious monument to Freemasonry at the Champ-de-Mars, a solid gold sphere in parliament, a Chinese temple in a parking lot, a blockhouse in the Bois de Boulogne, decipher the alchemical symbols on Notre-Dame de Paris, examine the lyre-shaped turtles at the Opéra-Comique, climb the majestic grand staircase of the medical school, visit a sublime hidden library, search for the enigmatic star-shaped octahedron on André Breton's grave, admire forgotten ceramics...

For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible.