The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

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

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

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

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

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.

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

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

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.