The site where two doves fell in love.

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

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

During the summer months, giant teddy bears take over Paris near Les Gobelins metro station.

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.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This ancient theater was once the home of fierce gladiatorial battles.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

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

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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

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

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.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.