Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

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

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

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

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

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

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

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.