The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

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

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

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

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

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

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