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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

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

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

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

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

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

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

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.