Executions were once held near this beautiful 18th-century fountain.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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

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

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

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

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

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

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

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 site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.