This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

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

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

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

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

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

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

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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

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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

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

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The site where two doves fell in love.