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

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

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

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

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

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

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

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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

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.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.