A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

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

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

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

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

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

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

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

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.

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

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

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

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

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

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

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