This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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.

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

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

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

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

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

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

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

The site where two doves fell in love.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.