Places nisfornancy Wants to Go

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

The site where two doves fell in love.

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

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

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

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

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

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

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

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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