This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

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

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

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

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

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

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

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

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

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

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

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

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