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

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.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

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

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

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

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

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