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

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

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

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

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

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

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

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.

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

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.