By golly, I love seeing steampunk in the everyday, even if it is a country that I don’t live in. This particular photograph, taken by anesterik, is taken in the Arts & Métiers metro station in Paris. The Musée des Arts + Metiers is a deliciously fun museum, full of Victorian machines, laboratories, and amazing industrial creations. (Mentioned before, here.)

What is particularly neo-Victorian, however, is the métro station leading to the museum. Redesigned relatively recently, it was made with the fullest intention to look like the interior of a Verne-esque submersible. I love that it is so evocative, with the brass walls, the portholes and the simplicity of the gears in the ceiling. If only I could walk through this station every day…