In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

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.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

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

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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