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

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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