Journey through the ruins of this ancient Roman temple dedicated to the god of war.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

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

Legend says this public grazing area hasn't been plowed for thousands of years.

This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

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

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The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.