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.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

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

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

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

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.