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

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

This small, ingenious cannon once helped regulate Parisian life.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.

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.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

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

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

A unique sculpture park that features the works of several famed artists.

This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A massive, gleaming sea turtle with a rider atop its shell looks out over the horizon.