Churches in Paris

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.