Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

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

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

This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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

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

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

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.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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