One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.