The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Ivy-covered Medieval tunnels cut through this charming town in France's Loire Valley.

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

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

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

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

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

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

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

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

Legend has it this 11th-century castle was paid a visit from the devil.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.