Don't ask, "Who'd come to Paris to see skeletons?" until you've made your way to Jardin des Plantes. Ignore the modern displays at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and come instead to this old-fashioned display in a soaring Belle Époque gallery. A cavalcade of skeletons of every creature under the sun are lined face forward, as if in a giant procession off Noah's Ark. You walk among them, noting how everything is so similar, rapt by the sheer scientific wonder of it all.

READ MORE ON FATHOM