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

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

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

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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