Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

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

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.