The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A curious collection of locks and keys.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.

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

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

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

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

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

For more than a century, revolutionary graffiti has marked the wall of a Parisian church.

The site where two doves fell in love.

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.

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

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.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

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

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.