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

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

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

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

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

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