Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

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.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.