Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

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

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

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

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

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

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

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