This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

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

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

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

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

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

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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