World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The smallest country in the world.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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