Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

Even France's favorite aquatic son Jacques Cousteau, couldn't get to the bottom of it.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

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

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

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

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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