This emotive sculpture was originally created for the 1878 World's Fair.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

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

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

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.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.