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.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

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.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

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

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.

Dozens of musicians have planted trees in this Danish park, and donated songs to go with them.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.