An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The world's largest wooden structure.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

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

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

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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

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.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

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

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

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.