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

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

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

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

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

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

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

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

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.