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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.