This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

This workshop and small museum is dedicated to tiny, delicate figurines that began as a subversive craft after the French Revolution.

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

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

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

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

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.