This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

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

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

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

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.