Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

A chapel on a volcanic core, marking the end of a successful journey.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.