Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.