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

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

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.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A perfectly crafted Pre-Columbian artifact dating back to 600 CE.

This imperial marble stele was given to Harvard by Chinese alumni in the 1930s.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.