Architecture in Paris

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

This renovated Art Nouveau bathroom from 1905 is worth the price of admission.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

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