Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.