This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

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

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