A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

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

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

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

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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