Paris, France
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An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.
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Paris, France
An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.
Paris, France
Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.
Paris, France
The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.
Paris, France
Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.
Paris, France
This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.
Paris, France
Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.
Paris, France
A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.
Paris, France
For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.
Paris, France
Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Paris, France
Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.
Paris, France
Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.
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Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Paris, France
A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Paris, France
The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.
Paris, France
An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.
Paris, France
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.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.