Places williamf Wants to Go

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

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

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

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

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

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.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

Marvel at the opulent Art Nouveau interior while dining on dirt-cheap French classics.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.