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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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

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.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.