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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

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

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.