Places LaGiumenta7 Wants to Go

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

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

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

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

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

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

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

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