For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The narrowest street 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.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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