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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

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

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

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

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.