Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

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

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.