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

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

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

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

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

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

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

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

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

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

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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

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