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.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

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

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

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

This Parisian café is dedicated to great tea and the art of knitting.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

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

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

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

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

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