Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

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

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

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

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

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.

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

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.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.