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

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

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

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

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

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

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.