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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Dishes are packed with flavor at one of the only Singaporean restaurants in Paris.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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