The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

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

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

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

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

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

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

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.