SECRET PARIS

For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible. Cover photo credit: Celine Ylmz on Unsplash.

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-...