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

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.