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A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A letterpress workshop committed to the art of printing, with unique and creative designs.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

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

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

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The site where two doves fell in love.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.