Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A total of 22 tiny bridges cross this canal of the Yvette River, forming a unique trail.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

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

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

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

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

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.