This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

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

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.