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

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

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

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

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

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

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.