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 short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

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

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

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

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

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

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