Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

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

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

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

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

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

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

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.