This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

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

A quaint medieval harbour where Benjamin Franklin landed in 1776.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

A modern and feminist reinterpretation of the famous Wallace Fountains.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

This crack in France's seaside cliffs once hid a sinister secret.

This statue by a foremost African sculptor presents the leader in Haiti's independence struggle as a heroic figure contemplating his fledgling nation's constitution.

No one knows the story behind the mysterious feline perched on this rooftop.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

An ancient natural spring still providing water to the nearby village

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

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.