This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

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

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

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

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

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 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.

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.