The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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

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

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

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

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.