One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

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

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.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

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

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

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

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.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

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