This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

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

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

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

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

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

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

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

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

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

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

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.