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mariechachat12

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Musée Marmottan Monet

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Added by K Brown

Parc Monceau

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

orchidsheart42

Added by orchidsheart42

'Bouquet of Tulips'

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Small Cannon of the Palais Royal

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

Sarah Vanheel CosmopoliClan

Added by Sarah Vanheel CosmopoliClan

Labrouste Reading Room

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Dylan

Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Added by cinapelayo

Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Victoires

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

Lilai Licata

Added by Lilai Licata

Bouillon Chartier

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

Diana Hubbell

Added by Diana Hubbell

Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub at Musée Grévin

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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The One-Two-Two

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Au Roi de la Bière

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Amrapali

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I Love You Wall

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

serflac

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Montmartre Funicular

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.

Le Louxor Palais du Cinema

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

145 Rue Lafayette

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

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E. Dehillerin

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

Diana Hubbell

Added by Diana Hubbell

The Sausage Stained Glass of the Eglise Saint Eustache

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

Laetitia Barbier

Added by Laetitia Barbier

Medici Column

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

Dylan

Fontaine de la Croix-du-Trahoir

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

59 Rivoli

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Allison

Added by Allison

Fountain of Innocents

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

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The Relic Crypt of St. Helena at Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles

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

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Le Défenseur du Temps (The Defender of Time)

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

Allison

Added by Allison