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

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

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

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.