A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

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

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

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

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

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

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

This small Roman arch was transformed into a dwelling by the founder of the Trinitarian Order.