France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

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

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

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.