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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

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

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.