This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

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

The location of this small park was once the site of an infamous public morgue.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

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

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

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

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.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

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.