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

A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

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

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

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

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

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

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.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

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

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

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