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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

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

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

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

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

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

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.