America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

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

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

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

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

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.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

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

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

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

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Known as the "Stairway to Heaven," this historic canal dates back to the 1700s.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.