The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

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

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The narrowest street in Paris.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

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

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

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.