This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

A tragic legacy of the attempt to beautify Skopje and line the pockets of corrupt politicians

Angels and demons watch over newspapers in this deconsecrated church.

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.

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

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

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.