Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

1920's reinforced concrete church by architect Auguste Perret changes the face of modern design.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

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

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.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.