The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

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

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

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

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

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

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 charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.