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

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

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

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

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

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

This recessed garden protects thousands of mountain plants by creating its own microclimates.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

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

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

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

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

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

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

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

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

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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